The Climbing Spot Factory community is legally structured as a non-profit association called Daidalea. This association consists of a number of members and many external collaborators, all united by a passion for climbing, or at least for adventure sports.

Daidalea's revenues, regardless of their source (e.g., sales of climbing guides, sponsorships), have always been used to improve the safety of climbing sites maintained by its members and collaborators.

With our latest initiative, we've established a mutually supportive relationship with the organizer of the country fair (or eco-museum),MARr CUORd. We provided the organizer, Andrea Salemi, IT support to help set up his great project, and in return, he'll purchase titanium bolts for re-bolting the Grotta dell'Arenauta, which is located between Sperlonga and Gaeta. He'll then give them directly to our members who handle the maintenance of those routes.

For us at Daidalea, who helped bring it to life, and especially for me, it was a journey back to my childhood, spent in another mountainous region not too different from Abruzzo in terms of sentiment and poverty.

But it was also a journey back to more recent times: to the years of my youth and the beginning of my professional career, when the Web was a grand dream of freedom of expression. In the 90s, hundreds of engineers worked for free to develop operating systems and communication protocols to build free digital platforms, independent of software multinationals. Back then, we didn't actually say "free," but "open source," because we already sensed that the word "free" could hide pitfalls and dangerous deviations. Pitfalls and deviations that did indeed manifest themselves and are now quite present and visible. Yet, as many of us believed back then, open-source platforms were meant to provide people with a tool for expression and help preserve and spread what deserves to be preserved and spread, regardless of any government or multinational corporation.

Today, we dinosaurs who witnessed the birth of the web resignedly see that along with what we initially deluded ourselves it would bring, the web also brings disinformation, traps, and deception. That's how the world is: nothing stays clean, or perhaps nothing is clean from the start. Yet, I don't stop hoping that the utility of these platforms will, in the long term, outweigh the harm caused by their corruption. That's why I created Climbing Spot Factory. And I'm glad to have found that today there are still people who think of using the web precisely for the purposes for which it was born. And also to have organized a reciprocal exchange of gifts with the exhibition organizer, not a monetary agreement, just like our peasant ancestors.